The Japan Times 2006: Index

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JAPAN TIMES INDEX (December 2006)
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GDP Gross domestic product
categories (Front Page News, Foreign News, Domes-
GENSUKIN Japan Congress Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
tic News, Business News, and Sports News). Editorial
GENSUIKYO Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
is also listed here. Each index entry consists of the GM General Motors Corp.
headline and the page number. GNP Gross national product
GSDF Ground Self-Defense Force
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IAA International Association of Art
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IATA International Air Transport Association
lIOCT Institute for New Generation Computer Technology
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ICPR International Commission on Radiological Protection
IDU International Democrat Union
IEA International Energy Agency
ABBREVIATIONS
IFC International Finance Corp.
liSS International Institute for Strategic Studies
ee ILO International Labor Organization |
ABM anti-ballistic missile IMF International Monetary Fund
ACCJ American Chamber of Commerce in Japan INTELSAT International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
ADB Asian Development Bank INTERPOL International Criminal Police Organization
ADRs american depositary receipts IOC International Olympic Committe
AEC Atomic Energy Commission IPI International Press Institute
AIDS acquired immune deficiency syndrome IRA Irush Republic Army
ANC African National Congress IWC International Whaling Commission
AP Associated Press IVANS International Value-Added Networks
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APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
ASDF Air Self-Defense Force JAA Japan Artistis’ Association
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations JAAF Japan Amateur Athletic Federation
AWACS Airbome Warming and Control System JAIA Japan Automobile Importers’ Association
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JAIDO Japan International Development Organization
BIS Bank of International Settlements JAMA Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association
BOJ Bank of Japan JAMSTEC Japan Maritime Science and Technology Center
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JANCPEC Japan National Committee for Pacific Economic
CAPTAIN Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information Cooperation
Network JASA Japan Amateur Sports Association
CATV community antenna television JATA Japan Association of Travel Agents
CB covertible bond JCCI Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry
CCD charge-coupled device JCP Japan Communist Pary
CD certificate of deposit JET Japan Exchange and Teaching Program
CFCs chlorofluorocarbons JETRO Japan External Trade Organizaition
CHONGRYUN General Association of Korean Residents in Japan JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency
CIA Central Intelligence Agency JICHIRO (ZENNIHON JICHIDANTAI RODOKUMIAI) ALL Japan Pre-
‘CIS Commonwealth of Independent States fectural and Municipal Workers’ Union
CP commercial paper JOC Japan Olympic Committee
CTBT Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty — =
CWAJ College Women’s Association in Japan KANKEIREN (KANSAI KEIZAI RENGOKAI) Kansai Economic Federa-
se cee
tion
DAT digital audio tape KEDO Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
DEA Drug Enforcement Administration KEIDANREN (KEIZAI DANTAI RENGOKAI) Japan Federation of Eco-
DPJ Democratic Party of Japan nomic Organizations
DRAMs dynamic random-access memories KEIZAI DOYUKAI Japan Association of Corporate Executives
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EBRD European Banks for Reconstruction and Development LBO leveraged buyout
EC European Communities LDP Liberal Democratic Party
ECOSOC Economic and Social Council LSI large-scale integration
EDTV extended-definition television — Vv —
EFTA European Free Trade Association M&A merger and acquisition
EMS European Monetary System MIA missing in action
EPA Economic Planning Agency MIPRO Manufactured Imports Promotion Organization
ERM European Exchange Rate Mechanism MITI Ministry of International Trade and Industry
ESA European Space Agency MOSS Market-Oriented, Sector-Selective
ESCAP U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific MPD Metropolitan Police Department
EU European Union MSDF Martime Self-Defense Force
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FAO Food and Agriculture Organization NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
FCCJ Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan NASDA National Space Development Agency
FDA Food and Drug Administration NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated
FRB Federal Reserve Board Quotations
JAPAN TIMES INDEX (December 2006)
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization USTR U.S. Trade Representative
NGO nongovernmental organization UV-B ultraviolet-B |
NHK (NIHON HOSO KYOKAI) Japan Broadcasting Corp. , —-V—
NICHIBENREN (NIHON BENGOSHI RENMEI) Japan Federation of VAT Value-Added Tax
Bar Associations VCRs videocassette recorders
NIEs Newly Industrializing Economies VOA Voice of America
NIKKEIREN (NIHON KEIEISHA DANTAI RENMEI) Japan Federation | VTRs videotape recorders
of Employers’ Associations —-W—
NIKKYOSO (NIHON KYOSHOKUIN KUMIAI) Japan Teachers’ Union WHO World Health Organization
NPA National Police Agency WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization
NPO nonprofit organization WTO World Trade Organization
NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. WWE World Wide Fund for Nature
NYMEX New York Mercantile Exchange —-Z—
NYSE New York Stock Exchange ZENCHU (ZENKOKU NOGYO KUMIAI CHUOKAI) Central Union of
| —-O— Agricultural Cooperatives
OAPEC Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries ZENGINKYO (ZENKOKU GINKO KYOKAIl) Japanese Bankers Asso-
OAS Organization of American States . ciation
OAU Organization of African Unity ZENNO (ZENKOKU NOGYO KYODO KUMIAI RENGOKAI) Federation
OCCIi Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Agricultural Cooperative Associations
ODA Official Development Assistance
OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
OECF Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OSI open systems’ interconnection
OTC over-the-counter
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PCBs polychlorinated biphenyl!
PECC Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference
PEN Poets and playwrights, Essayists and editors, and Novelists
PKF Peace Keeping Forces
PKO Peace Keeping Operation
PLO Palestine Liberation Organization
POWs prisoners of war
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R&D research and development
RENGO (ZENNIHON MINKAN RODOKUMIAI RENGOKAI) Japanese
Private Sector Trade Union Confederation .
ROK Republic of Korea
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SAS Scandinavian Airlines System
SDF Self-Defense Forces
SDI Strategic Defense Initiative
SDP Social Democratic party
SESC Securities and Exchanges Surveillance Commission |
SHIN RENGO (NIHON RODOKUMIAI SORENGO-KAI) Japanese
Trade Union Confederation
SHITETSU-SOREN (NIHON SHITETSU RODOKUMIAI
SORENGO-KAI) General Federation of Private Railwa
Workers Unions of Japan .
SNF Short-Range Nuclear Force
SOR synchrotron orbit radiation
STA Science and Technology Agency
START Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
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TCCI Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry
TOPIX Tokyo stock price index
TRISTAN transposable ring-intersecting storage accelerator in Nippon
TRON the realtime operating system nucleus
TSE Tokyo Stock Exchange
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UAE United Arab Emirates
U.K. United Kingdom
U.N. United Nations
UFO unidentified flying object
ULSIs ultra-large-scale integrated circuit chips
UNC United Nations Command
UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNEP United Nations Environment Program
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organiza-
tion
UNFPA United Nations Fund for Population Activities
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund
UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNMOVIC United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Com-
mission
UNSC United Nations Security Council
UPI United Press International
Major News of December 2006 Dutch Parliament votes to pardon asylum-seekers (p6)
AIDS to hit global labor, economic growth (p7)
December 1 (Friday) Discovery of Roman sarcophagus forces rethink of
Front Page News London’s history (p7)
Murakami enters plea of not guilty in NBS case Business News
Radiation traces found on several British jetliners Panel proposes tax breaks for Japan Inc. (p8)
N. Korea, U.S. end talks without result Lackluster inflation obscures outlook on BOJ rate
Scientists fear new Europe ice age increase (p8)
Lower House OKs defense ministry bill Fiscal ’OS growth actually 2.4%, not 3.3% (p8)
Domestic News China debates putting GM rice on the menu (p9)
Disabled man left at bus stop wins bias suit (p2) Sports News
Panel to discuss surrogacy (p2) Murofushi pulls out with injury (p19)
War-displaced seven find no kin, exit (p2) Hoshino tapped for Olympic job (p19)
High court backs foes of Juki Net registration (p3) Singh on song at Nippon Series (p19)
Foreign News Mao leads NHK Trophy (p20)
Wives are the new face of AIDS in Thailand (p4) Red Sox ink lefty Okajima (p20)
Myanmar Army forces civilians to flee: report (p4) Editorial
Tsunami victims’ kin slam conduct of U.K. officials Bringing an end to bullying (p16)
(p4) The call of Antarctica (p16)
Iraq panel to call for U.S. troop pullout (p5)
NATO says it’s winning the battle in Afghanistan (p6) December 3 (Sunday)
U.K. forces ‘helped’ loyalists bomb Dublin (p7) Front Page News
Business News Reform panel eyes teacher improvement
LDP OKs draft budget calling for “drastic cuts’ (p8) Nintendo’s Wii game console debuts long lines
Better working terms sought for temp staff (p8) nationwide
U.K. drafts pension overhaul plan (p9) Hezbollah backers set up camp in central Beirut
Polonium contaminated ex-spy’s wife and Italian
‘Blood diamonds’ only 1% of trade (p9)
Australians hold mass rallies against new workplace U.S. Muslim lawmaker drawing heat for plan to use
laws (p9) Quran for swearing-in
Sports News Domestic News
bj-league’s 10th team to play in Fukuoka (p12) Narita mayor arrested over bribe (p2)
Gamba coach Nishino: We can knock Reds off perch Miyazaki governor opts to lose job over bid scandal
(p14) (p2)
Editorial Teenager gets 14 years for murdering parents (p2)
Peace at the top of the world (p16) Foreign News
North Koreans brace for more power shortages (p3)
December 2 (Saturday) -Cuba masters the art of retooling Soviet-era arms (p5)
Front Page News Mexico inaugurates President Calderon amid turmoil,
Court orders redress for war-displaced | protests (p5)
Iraq panel eyes 2008 pullout of nearly all U.S. troops Sexual behavior debates mark AIDS day (p6)
British test more people in probe of spy slaying Midwest snowstorm disrupts flights, power (p7)
U.S. rates travelers for terrorist risk Business News
Single asteroid wiped out dinosaurs: study EADS gives OK for launch of Airbus A350 project
Domestic News (p8)
Miyazaki governor dealt no-confidence motion (p2) New Alcatel-Lucent CEO won’t be doing business
Shanghai turns back JAL jetliners (p2) with Iran (p8)
Kazakh nuke controls to be viewed (p2) U.K. financial watchdog comes under fire (p8)
Princess Aiko celebrates fifth birthday (p2) More U.S. companies giving workers time off to
Foreign News
volunteer (p9)
World AIDS Day events held throughout Asia (p4) Sports News
Chinese courts rule against N.Y. Times researcher, Japan gets medal in badminton (p19)
activist (p4) Japan’s Nashiro defends WBA belt (p19)
Typhoon may have killed 400 in Philippines (p4) Reds reign supreme in J. League (p20)
Mao claims NHK Trophy with highest-ever score in Sixth century tomb’s ‘haniwa’ is two-faced first (p2)
GP series (p20) Foreign News
Editorial Fiji coup fears intensify as roadblocks go up across
Japan takes a stand on its cuisine (p12) capital (p4)
Rudd elected leader of Australia’s Labor (p4)
December 4 (Monday) China expected to top Japan in research spending:
Front Page News OECD (p4)
Rumsfeld memo advised major Iraq adjustment Iraq carnage continues as 50 bodies found (p7)
Miyazaki governor to resign over public works bid British police widen spy-poisoning probe (p8)
scandal Pinochet still fighting for his life (p9)
Philippines declares state of calamity after mudslide Pope says Turkey trip ‘unforgettable,’ wants further
tragedy dialogue with Muslims (p9)
Digital revolution hooks world, tightens its grip on Business News
humanity: ITU Capital spending up for 14th quarter (p12)
Domestic News Omi hints bond issues may face ¥3 trillion cut (p12)
Horie says ex-CFO made false statements against him Car parts makers expect profit rise (p12)
in court (p2) Sports News
LDP panel looking to give firms ¥700 billion in tax Yamamoto, Nakamura victorious (p21)
— cuts (p2) Kitajima qualifies with fastest time (p21)
Narita City Hall raided over allegations mayor was on Ueno grabs judo gold in 70-kg class (p21)
the take (p2) Takahara fires in hat trick for Frankfurt (p22)
Nations to share sandstorm data (p2) Editorial
Foreign News Upgrading SDF’s overseas activities (p15)
Saudis announce arrest of 136 al-Qaida suspects (p5)
Dion wins leadership of Canada’s Liberal Party (p5) December 6 (Wednesday)
Raul Castro signals readiness to talk with U.S. (p6) Front Page News
Polls expect Chavez to win re-election (p6) Bolton resigns as U.N. envoy
Dead spy’s Italian contact says he has polonium, also Hit insurgents harder: Shiite chief
was target (p7) | Foreign-owned firms in Japan set to get political
Egypt squatters are evicted from Luxor tomb site (p8) donation nod
Colombia’s warlords warn prison transfer risks peace Military leader stages coup in Fiji
process (p8) | NASA plans lunar settlement sometime around ’20
German film, Almodovar’s “Volver’ top European Domestic News
‘Oscars’ (p9) Approach paths limited for new US. airstrip (p2)
Opening of Nazi papers could help victims win larger Politicians bare blubber on blog 1n bid to shape up
claims (p9) (p2)
Sports News Tumbling cargo boxes kill one in crash over Koshien
Muneta, Nakazawa take judo gold medals in Doha (p2)
(p19) Drug-resistant TB ‘super strains’ found in Japan (p2)
Foreign News
Takahashi wins gold at NHK Trophy (p20)
Editorial Bainimarama: national hero to coup leader (p4)
Death of a dissident (p16) ‘Abrasive’ Bolton also earned regard as skilled
diplomat (p5)
December 5 (Tuesday) British cops probing spy’s death in Moscow (p6)
Front Page News Pinochet stable, conversing after life-saving heart
LDP allows postal rebels back in fold surgery (p6)
Kinmirai searched in fraud probe New York City health board set to vote on banning
U.S. unit to check Japanese auditors trans fats (p7)
U.S. Marine gets 40 years in Philippines rape case Business News
Victorious Chavez hails ‘red’ Venezuela Cabinet pushes gas tax deferral (p8)
Domestic News
Carmakers in Japan face fuel-efficiency hike (p8)
Miyazaki government raided over bid-rigging (p2) Group asks YouTube to make copyright detector (p8)
War-displaced hold ministry protest (p2) 371,936 Wiis sell in first two days (p8)
Bank of New York will buy Mellon Financial in $17.6 Domestic News
billion merger (p9) 3,300 registered as living on 45-sq.-meter plot in
Bank of Korea forecasts slower GDP growth of 4.4% Osaka (p2)
(p9) War-displaced rally to urge state to obey order to pay
up (p2) :
Sports News
Kiyohara to return for 22nd season (p19) Four teens held for bulling assault (p2)
bj-league player tryouts resume (p19) Foreign News
Kitajima captures gold medal in 100-meter India nuclear deal hits hurdle on final U.S. Congress
breaststroke (p20) lap (p4)
Editorial Australian lawmakers defy party heads to lift cloning
Pre-empting official corruption (p16) ban (p4)
More help for crime suspects (p16) The Queen’s English is no longer as posh as it used to
be (p5)
December 7 (Thursday) U.N. authorizes force to protect Somali government
‘Front Page News (p6)
Key report offers Iraq exit strategy Poison death officially murder (p6) -
Latest U.N. report on wealth saw Japanese on top Afghan opium boom fuels child addictions (p7)
Mixed emotions as Pearl Harbor veterans meet Business News
Cabinet support rate falls to 48.6% DoCoMo logs first net decline in subscribers (p8)
Domestic News Japan, ASEAN poised to ink tariff-scrapping
Kinmirai probe takes in KDDI (p2) agreement (p8)
Collective defense ban crazy: Lawless (p2) Nifty lags on stock market debut (p8)
Kochi cops find more fund misuse problems (p2) E. Asia growth to slow: ADB (p9)
Foreign News Australia job creation up sharply (p9)
Thais fete monarch on his 79th birthday (p4) Microsoft starts online library to challenge Google
U.S. needs to fill Bolton’s post soon, analysts say (p5) (p10)
Iran ‘will face sanctions’ but extent unclear (p6) Sports News
France, Germany back plan to partially freeze Turkey Mizutori wins horizontal bar; swimmers add three
talks (p6) more golds (p12)
Alps warmest in 1,300 years (p7) Apache go get AND1 player Jones (p13)
Business News Editorial
Bridgestone Americas to buy Bandag (p8) Mr. Chen faces more difficulties (p16)
Abe tax plan hits stiff LDP opposition (p8)
Coincident DI 77.8%, lagging DI 0% (p8) December 9 (Saturday)
Delays in oil projects may keep world prices near $60 Front Page News
per barrel (p9) Ex-governor arrested over bidding scandal
Audrey Hepburn’s fashion classic fetches $800,000 in Growth figure lowered to paltry 0.8%
auction battle (p9) Bush reaction to Iraq panel lackluster
Spending cuts, drought slow Australian growth (p9) Iraq panel’s suggestions may be asking too much of
Sports News al-Maliki
Tokuyama returns WBC title belt (p21) Philippines postpones ASEAN meet due to storm
Becks expects to start for Real (p21) Domestic News
Japan pips China in 4 X 10 freestyle (p22) Cabinet extends ASDF Iraq airlift mission until end of
Editorial July (p2)
Syria in the middle (p12) New law imposes tougher penalties on bureaucrats
linked to bid-rigging (p2)
December 8 (Friday) Broadcasts to be aired for abductees (p2)
Front Page News Foreign News
Koizumi offers to revisit Pyongyang U.S. has nukes deployed in South: Pyongyang (p4)
Flowing water find could point to life on Mars Australians brace for blazing weekend (p4)
11 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq in one day Panel report shows grim situation in Iraq (p5)
Silly String does serious job in Iraq
Polonium poisoning hits Russian who met ex-spy (p6)
Ishihara tells Tokyo he wants third term Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk celebrates power of
literature (p7) High court voids Juki Net ruling
Iran execution photographer to get overdue Pulitzer Pinochet's death brings joy, grief
(p7) Accused in Blackman trial denies all charges
Mad cow death casts doubt on blood banks (p8) Domestic News
Business News Company chief says he gave Ando ¥20 million (p2)
LDP panel puts off until next year talk on Ministry to cease aid for some elderly homeowners
consumption tax (p10) (p2)
Hybrids not profitable, Nissan exec says (p10) Woman gets four years in killing of 3-year-old (p2)
Panasonic mobile phones explode (p10) Five insurers overcharged on homes built with
ECB lifts interest rates but hints at end to rises (p11) enhanced fire resistance (p2)
Sports News ‘War-orphan’ ruling draws appeal (p2)
Golden double (p22) Foreign News
Bonds agrees to one-year deal with Giants (p22) War-weary Acehnese vote in landmark elections (p4)
Editorial Light drinkers cost Australia big (p4)
A change of direction in Iraq? (p16) Deaths of Gaza children up faction-fighting fears (p5)
Polonium traces are found in Hamburg (p5)
December 10 (Sunday) Eastwood’s ‘Letters From Iwo Jima’ tops L.A. film
Front Page News critics’ list (p10)
Six-party talks to resume in China Dec. 16 U.K. serial killer feared after prostitute murders (p10)
Abe, Arroyo slam North Korea nuke test Business News
ASEAN signs pacts to kick-start regional economic Maruha plans to merge with Nichiro in 2007 (p12)
union Nissan developing its own hybrid lineup (p12)
Iran’s enrichment program expanded: president Shiozaki seeks easing of foreign takeover tax rules
Help wanted ads placed in papers in a bid to fill Fiy1 (p12)
Cabinet posts China planner forecasts 10.5 percent growth (p13)
Parties split the spoils in Taiwan mayoral polls Sports News
Domestic News Germans win golf World Cup in playoff (p20)
Invitation firmed up for Chinese leaders to visit (p2) Swallows’ Furuta OKs big pay cut (p21)
Panel to clear Paloma of heater defects (p2) _ Narisako hurdles, Sawano vaults, Ikeda leaps to gold
Temp workers forced into illegal work (p2) in Doha (p22)
Foreign News Editorial
Fiji's coup the world’s oddest (p3) Take the money and run (p15)
Bush’s Iraq strategy talks focusing on three main Heavy burden on an aging town (p15)
options (p4)
Suit seeks right to sue Rumsfeld for torture (p4) December 13 (Wednesday)
Warm spell could cancel winter in Europe (p5) Front Page News
Buying diamonds still not entirely guilt free (p6) EU partially freezes Turkey’s entry talks
Business News Bombs kill at least 57 people in Baghdad
India targets 9% growth in bid to tackle poverty (p7) Will lending law revision put brakes on debt-driven
China’s banks face day of reckoning as sector opens to suicide?
foreign competition (p7) Couple with HIV want child by in vitro
Sports News Climate can globalize a nuclear conflict: study
Osaka defeats Tokyo — again (p19) Domestic News
Nagashima zooms to title in 500 (p19) Tokyo eyes faster Futenma move (p2)
Fukushi storms to 10K victory at Asian Games (p20) Taiwanese may get to drive using own licenses (p2)
Editorial State planted fake speakers in 15 town hall meetings
Our words of the year (p10) (p2)
Ruling parties push for lower voting age (p2)
December 11 (Monday) Kyushu Hansen’s museum opens (p2)
No paper was issued due to press holiday. Foreign News
Pyongyang confirms it will attend new six-party talks
December 12 (Tuesday) (p4)
Front Page News Australia citizenship test not racist, Howard says (p4)
Russia, China may OK Iran sanctions (p5) (p24)
Annan slams Bush in farewell speech (p6) Cutoff looms for Matsuzaka, Red Sox (p24)
AIDS cuts S. Africa life spans to 51 (p6) Editorial |
Olmert hints at nuclear weapons (p6) More trouble in paradise (p16)
Shuttle delivers astronauts to ISS for tricky mission
oy December 15 (Friday)
- Belarusian gets EU rights award (p7) Front Page News
Business News Red Sox break bank for Matsuzaka
Softbank unit warned over ad campaign (p8) Ill lawmaker puts Democrats’ control of Senate in
Abe, Howard agree to start FTA talks next year (p8) doubt
DaimlerChrysler set to lay off 4,000 (p9) British police inquiry rules out conspiracy in Diana’s
Sports News death
J. League unveils award nominees (p19) IEA chooses Tanaka as next chief
Icho sisters golden on mat; Japan wins rugby title Boy who felt no pain may lead to painkiller advances
(p20) Domestic News
Editorial U.S. hits pledges of no Nago overflights (p2)
Clarify ASDF’s Iraq activities (p12) Singh urges expansion of India economic ties (p2)
How to use road taxes? (p12) Four Cabinet ministers cut pay over town meeting
‘plants’ (p2)
December 14 (Thursday) Education law, Defense Ministry bills clear panel (p2)
Front Page News Grand Canyon slaying suspect held (p2)
Winny creator guilty in copyright violations Schindler Elevator chief of Japan arm exits over
Bush decides Iraq policy amid troop-level divide fatality (p3)
Saudis may aid Sunnis if U.S. quits Iraq Foreign News
MMC, ex-execs not guilty of coverup N. Korea may shut down key nuclear reactor (p4)
Scientists find root of alcohol ‘high’ French troops ‘raped’ Rwandan refugees (p6)
Upper House passes bill to lower loan rate caps U.S. court rejects slave descendants (p6)
Domestic News ‘Suffolk Strangler’ sows U.K. terror (p7)
Man to hang for sisters’ murders (p2) Business News
Government jiggered town meetings to push policies Ruling bloc says keep tax breaks for corporations (p8)
(p2) Tuna quota cuts could spell cold turkey (p8)
Tougher architect licensing law enacted (p2) Toshiba, Sony, NEC unveil new LSI system (p8)
Political donation restrictions eased (p2) MUFG to hire 100 more auditors (p8)
Foreign student numbers down: poll (p2) Qantas OKs $8.7 billion buyout (p10)
Foreign News Sports News
Malaysian sultan is installed as new king (p4) Kitatsuru zooms to cycling gold (p12)
UNICEF says 7,000 fewer girls are born daily in India Barcelona goes on goal spree in win (p12)
due to feticide (p4) Pregnant Davenport plans to retire (p12)
Taiwanese want independence (p4) Asada back in action (p14)
Islamic militants surround Somali government town Editorial
(p5) Allowing a future for tuna (p16)
Iran meeting to deny Holocaust is slammed (p6) More fluid politics in Taiwan (p16)
English murders evoke Jack the Ripper fears (p15)
Business News December 16 (Saturday)
Sanyo Shinpan to get FSA suspension order (p8) Front Page News
LCD firms probed over price-fixing (p8) Education, defense bills passed
World Bank projects growth of 2.9% for Japan in 2006 JT to buy rival Gallaher for ¥2.25 trillion
(p8) Ban lays out ambitious agenda after swearing-in as
Qantas rejects takeover bid by Macquarie-led partners U.N. head
(p9) Man in ’70 JAL hijacking released because of illness
Sports News Climate models underestimate rising seas: study
Youngsters lift Int’] to title match (p24) Domestic News |
Japan wins three karate golds, silver in volleyball CO apparently kills seven in flat (p2)
Dad gets 10 years for starving tot to death (p2) ‘Sexy’ William gets army commission (p6)
26 officials disciplined for ‘plants’ (p2) Scientists reverse diabetes in mice, paving way for
Hundreds protest education law revision (p2) human cure (p6)
Constitution referendum bills to be carried over (p2) Prostitute killer may have drugged victims (p7)
Foreign News Business News
Top Tamil Tiger negotiator dies (p4) Westinghouse clinches massive China nuclear power
Taiwan first lady’s corruption trial begins (p4) deal (p8)
Tribal chiefs refuse to accepts Fiji coup (p4) Sports News
Palestinian premier shot at; son injured (p6) Asada, Ando going strong (p20)
Blair questioned as a witness in cash-for-honors Editorial
scandal (p7) | ‘Defense Ministry’ will bear watching (p12)
Diana report should quiet conspiracy theorists: British Political theater in town (p12)
press (p/7)
Botched Florida lethal injection slammed by death December 18 (Monday)
penalty foes (p8) Front Page News
Americans love media, soda pop; two-thirds are Fatah-Hamas tensions build
overweight: census (p9) Mystery of Joan of Arc relics is solved at last
Business News N. Korea arms talks ‘at fork in road’: Washington,
Nintendo recalls Wii controller straps (p14) Tokyo
Toyota poised to get GM’s top spot (p14) Scandal-hit Wakayama chooses new governor
Sports News Magazine calls you ‘Person of the Year’
Japan performed well in Doha, officials say (p22) Domestic News ©
Matsuzaka meets Fenway, Boston fans (p24) Misawa Homes admits sales unit cooked books (p2)
Editorial Sumitomo Realty faces quake-data suit by condo
Blame users, not software (p20) owners in Sapporo (p2)
Faint signs of hope (p20) North Korea turns tables, accuses Japan of abducting
citizen (p2)
December 17 (Sunday) DPJ eyes an opponent for Ishihara (p2)
Front Page News 10 brain-dead organ donors in 2006 (p2)
Nikko Cordial probed over padded profits Foreign News
Human torso found on Shinjuku street Fighting displaces thousands (p3)
Iwamura, Devil Rays go down to wire for deal Abbas’ call for poll is seen as ploy for Hamas
Hamas cries coup as Abbas ups ante with dramatic call concessions (p4)
for early elections Woman wins seat in first-ever UAE poll (p5)
North Korea tells U.S. to drop ‘hostile’ attitude HarperCollins fires controversial publisher Regan (p5)
Italian intelligence officers shed light on shady CIA
Thousands demonstrate against Kremlin (p6)
‘renditions’ Automakers ask judge to dismiss suit by Califomia
Domestic News (p6)
1930s thought control uncovered (p2) Botched U.S. execution likely ‘tortured man to death’
Sasae, Hill confer ahead of six-party talks Monday (p7)
(p2) Italian judge rejects man’s wish to refuse treatment so
Mazda to scrap cars aboard listing ship (p2) he can die (p8)
Activist Nisei farmer in California dies at age 84 (p2) Sports News
Cop gets third warrant for robbery (p2) Tabata, Hirako nab national crowns (p18)
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Nepal, Maoists approve draft of constitution (p3) Editorial
Illegal immigrants benefit economy: Texas report (p4) Molding children by design (p16)
U.S., Cuba launch new dialogue (p4)
EU puts brakes on eastward expansion (p5) December 19 (Tuesday)
Breast cancer risk may lead more to drop hormone Front Page News
pills (p6) North Korea is defiant at 6-party talks
Abbas firm on polls as ceasefire falters up (p3)
Nikko faces big fine over padding Foreign News
Top Democrat backs troop increase Bush signs off on U.S. policy shift with Indian nuclear
European Muslims ‘facing broad discrimination’ agreement (p4)
Domestic News Army will rule if Kim dies without naming heir: report
Reclamation OK’d for fourth Haneda runway (p2) (p4)
Japan renews UNSC bid at ceremony (p2) Gaza arms tunnels hinder lasting truce with Israel (p5)
H-IIA carries biggest satellite yet into space (p2) Report says radical Shiites greater threat than al-Qaida
Tokyo denies North kidnap claim (p2) (p5)
One bad apple set to spoil Osaka’s ‘buraku’ aid barrel Two suspected of killing U.K. prostitutes held (p6)
(p3) Yoko Ono’s driver in heap of legal trouble (p6)
Foreign News Yogi Bear cartoonist Barbera dies at 95 (p7)
U.S. repatriates 33 detainees held at Guantanamo base Business News
(p5) Report sparks calls for Honma’s ouster (p8)
Red Crescent workers kidnapped in Baghdad (p5) 06 growth cut to 1.9%; 2.0% is forecast for ’07 (p8)
France to pull 200 elite ground troops from Restaurants plan to ask government to ease up on U.S.
Afghanistan (p5) beef restrictions (p8)
Castro has no cancer, Cubans tell Americans (p6) Sports News
$10 million dose: Litvinenko polonium price tag (p6) Real’s Cannavaro wins FIFA world player of year
Iran leader Ahmadinejad set to suffer big elections (p20)
blow (p6) Reds’ Tulio named best in J. League (p20)
Suspect arrested in U.K. serial killer hunt (p7) Source: Igawa, Yankees agree to 5-year deal (p20)
EU signs landmark bill on rules for chemical industry Editorial
into law (p7) A natural partnership in Asia (p16)
Study pinpoints ‘language’ gene linked to autism (p8)
Business News December 21 (Thursday)
Bad books force change in Misawa’s earnings (p10) Front Page News
Surge knocks out KDDI applications (p10) Tax yield lifts ’07 budget
Sagawa, China postal unit tie up on delivery service Libya court sentences six to death in HIV case
(p10) Bush considers sending more troops to Iraq
Communist Party sets up at Wal-Mart (p11) N. Korea’s nuclear envoy: polished diplomat,
Sports News thankless task
Miyamoto heading to Salzburg (p19) Japan’s population to fall 30% by 2055, study finds
Matsuzaka arrives back after ‘tough’ talks with Red Domestic News
Sox (p20) Kinmirai Tsuushin declared bust (p2)
Editorial Radio distraction seen in ’05 train tragedy (p2)
Closing the biofuel gap (p13) ‘Hibernating’ saves Rokko hiker missing for 24 days
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December 20 (Wednesday) Ex-Tokyo Gov. Aoshima dies of blood disorder at 74
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Fed goes after BTMU over lax scrutiny State outlays boosted to fight bullying (p2)
Palestinian state’s hopes fade with battles Mutation likely behind virus spread (p2)
U.S., North discuss finances at nuclear talks Foreign News
Hamas-Fatah truce in tatters amid continuing North Korea says U.S. plans attack amid talks (p4)
gunbattles Promised tsunami donations have yet to be delivered:
Norovirus hits 65,600, sets record nationwide BBC (p4)
Report says oil dependency weakening U.S. power Cheney's Libby testimony would be historic (p5)
Domestic News Baby is OK after trip through X-ray machine (p5)
Mabuchi, other slayings draw the death penalty (p2) EU envoy makes bid to avoid Somalia war (p6)
Teen arrested over slaying of homeless (p2)
Nine in 10 in U.S. had premarital sex (p6)
Diplomats file scientific whaling protest (p2) U.K. police get extra time to grill suspects in slayings
Gal trying jeans gets scorpion stings (p2) of prostitutes (p6)
Shizuoka teens cinch first high school English debate Business News
FILP cut of 5.6% proposed for ’07 as reforms kick in Changes at the United Nations (p16)
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Lender Sanyo Shinpan tried but failed to duck payouts December 23 (Saturday)
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Sony BMG to pay $1.5 million to settle CD fiasco Prosecutors demand four years for Horie
(p8) Gazprom gets Sakhalin-2 control
TSE retains Fujitsu new system (p8) North Korean talks end in a deadlock; forum put in
The bonus to beat: $53.4 million (p9) doubt
Sports News _ Roh says U.S. wrecked chance for a deal
WBC-winning team named No. 1 (p21) Macau bank owns up to laundering North’s funds
Wie accepted at Stanford, will attend college in fall A modern Spanish flu may wipe out 81 million
(p21) Domestic News
Kameda defends world title (p22) - Corpse in cement, fraud net arrested of Tama pair (p2)
Editorial Percentage of asthmatic kids doubles in 10 years:
Japan’s role in the U.N. (p12) ministry (p2)
Rabies still poses a threat (p12) Kanagawa to require age check for vending machine
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December 22 (Friday) Foreign News
Front Page News Men walking to South Pole hit 40-day mark, nearing
Besieged tax chief Honma steps down end (p4)
Panel: Poloma negligent but deadly products avoid Tamil rebels ‘recruited’ children by force (p4)
liability Four U.S. Marines face murder charge (p5)
Turkmen president dies at 66 Lawmakers meet in first session without Castro (p5)
Hoya, Pentax seal October merger, to keep brands Ipswich man charged in prostitute killings (p6)
World shakes as China’s global footprint deepens Business News
Domestic News Toyota eyes 9.42 million vehicles in 07 (p8)
Suspected ringleader in attacks on homeless held (p2) IRCJ to pay back tax funds a year early (p8)
Percentage of asthmatic kids doubles in 10 years: Japan Times to join 52-paper portal (p8)
_ Google triggers debate over digital books (p10)
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Japan, U.S. to formalize exchange of global Sports News
topographic data (p2) Standout Shibui slated to run in Osaka Women’s
Court halts Kadokawa book over photo rights (p2) Marathon (p19)
Traffic fatalities down for sixth year (p2) Schild ends U.S. run (p20)
Aneha released from jail after posting ¥5 million bail Editorial
(p2) DPJ’s policy plan needs work (p16)
Foreign News Lopsided tax proposals (p16)
Rising sea levels engulf pair of islands in India (p4)
Lawmaker warns of possible second nuclear test (p4) December 24 (Sunday)
U.S. leader of Middle East troops to retire (p5) Front Page News
Bush says it was a ‘difficult year’ in Iraq (p5) Final draft of U.N. Iran sanctions issued
Somali parties agree to peace talks (p6) ‘96 Khobar Towers bombing blamed on Iran
Google’s 2006 top 10 list shows what is in vogue (p7) The Christmas family: Yes, that is their last name
First fossil evidence is discovered of native New Matsushita negotiating to sell JVC to Kenwood
Zealand land mammals (p7) Failure of North talks ups tension, may invite tests
Business News Japan plays weak hand, may seek more sanctions
Traders face selloff of Sakhalin-2 stakes (p8) Domestic News
Toyota upscale hatchback unveiled for Japan market
Toyota may agree to provide health-care aid to
(p8) asthmatics (p2)
Nissan, NEC plan hybrid car batteries (p8) Upper House race will be held July 22 (p2)
Sports News Tokyo Univ. professor seen as potential tax panel chief
Igawa tours new home (p12) (p2)
CL, PL scupper one-game edge (p13) Foreign News
Editorial Power struggle looms in Turkmenistan (p4)